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DEMENTIA patients are being given NHS slippers fitted with a GPS tracker so they can be found if they wander off. Alerts are sent to carers’ mobile phones if a user strays from a designated area, such as a nursing home yard or garden. Patients can be pinpointed to an exact location on a map, reducing the risk they will be harmed and need costly hospital care. The tracker costs £75 to buy, has a £26 monthly fee, and is built into a sole insert that can be switched to other footwear. Charities last night welcomed the “lifesaving” initiative, which is being trialled in Dorset, saying it will reassure relatives. And with one in four hospital beds occupied by a dementia patient, at a cost of £400 a night, it could save the NHS millions. Sally Copley, from the Alzheimer’s Society, said: “When used appropriately, the use of GPS tracking for people with dementia can provide reassurance and even save lives.” Professor Tony Young, from NHS … [Read more...] about Dementia patients being given NHS slippers fitted with GPS tracker so they can be found if they wander off

Stalkers could be made to wear electronic tags and their victims would receive message alerts when offenders are nearby, police have said. The new initiatives were unveiled for London as Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick admitted the force had failed stalking victims in the past. The number of stalking cases dealt with by the Met nearly doubled between 2016-17 and it is feared many more cases go unreported. Read more Lily Allen speaks out on ‘isolating’ stalker experience Ms Dick told reporters: “I am not here to defend where we have failed in the past. Maybe we have not given it as much focus as we could. We are striving to get better.” A task force has been set up, incorporating police, mental health professionals, and overseen by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust aiming to bring together different agencies to look at the same cases. Every case of stalking reported to the Met will be initially be seen by the new Stalking Threat Assessment Centre … [Read more...] about Stalkers should be forced to wear GPS trackers to alert victims they are nearby, police say

“You’re able to watch the path of the icebergs on the internet to see the long-term trends — how the icebergs move,” Solberg said in an interview with CBC News. Solberg tagged the icebergs by pulling up alongside them in his 12-metre sailboat and then scrambling onto them using an axe.“That was quite a scary experience because the icebergs are kind of unstable. It’s not a place you should really hang around for too long,” he said. “You have crampons and ice screws and ropes and all that, and then you make your way up to find a suitable place for the transponder. You just hope that the iceberg won’t turn when you are there,” he added. Solberg has now spent two winters on his boat surrounded by thick sea ice in the Arctic waters in an attempt to collect scientific data that will shed light on climate change trends. As well as installing the GPS trackers, Solberg has also been taking readings of the water temperature in the area. … [Read more...] about Greenland’s icebergs get GPS trackers

Convicted stalkers and domestic abusers with restraining orders should be forced to wear GPS trackers, which would sent an alert to their victims if they are nearby, in a new set of demands by campaigners. The government is considering proposals to fit offenders with electronic tags, which would transmit a signal to a call centre in the event of a breach or if it is tampered with, under sweeping plans to transform the handling of domestic violence. However groups representing victims have urged ministers to go further by bringing in an alert system, where the offender wears a device that transmits an alert directly to the victim, if a restraining order is breached. Police would be notified if the risk was deemed to be high. Read more Domestic abusers face electronic tagging and alcohol ban It comes after Amber Rudd, the home secretary, announced plans for a ”once in a generation opportunity” to … [Read more...] about Convicted stalkers and domestic abusers should be forced to wear GPS trackers, campaigners say

Britain’s youngest lottery ­winner is so paranoid men are just after her cash she put a tracker on her boyfriend’s car. Jane Park, 22, checked herself in for counselling after her jealousy nearly ended the relationship. She knew she had lost it when she was about to hire a detective to watch boyfriend Jordan Piggott. She said: “Winning the lottery made me a ‘psycho girlfriend’. The money made it too easy to keep an eye on boyfriends.” Jane, who won £1million on the EuroMillions aged 17, has been dating Dundee midfielder Jordan, 19, since September. But she said: “My jealousy led to a breakdown in our relationship, we split up and now take each day as it comes.” She is having sessions with a therapist on London’s Harley Street to tackle her green-eyed monster. Jane said: “I trusted Jordan but I still checked up on him.” She began checking who he was friends with on social media then activated an app to see … [Read more...] about Paranoid lotto winner Jane Park put GPS tracker on boyfriend’s car